Prophet of Indian Nationalism: A Study of the Political Thoought of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh (An Old and Rare Book)

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About the Author Bom on 9th March 1931, Dr. Karan Singh at 18, became Regent of Jammu & Kashmir and continued as Head of the State for 18 years As Regent, as elected Sardar-i-Riyasat and as governor.

In March 1967, at the age of 36, Dr. Karan Singh became the Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation. He was elected to Parliament from the same constituency in 1971, 1977 and 1980. In 1973 he moved to Health and Family Planning. Within two years, small-pox was eradicated and Family Planning emerged as a major national commit- ment. In 1979 he became Minister of Education and Culture and later Ambassador in U.S.A.

In 1957 he passed the M.A. Examination of the Delhi University in Political Science in First Class. He earned his Doctorate by writing a thesis on the political thoughts of Sri Aurobindo.

He was Chancellor of the Jammu & Kashmir University as well as the Banaras Hindu University, Chairman, Central Sanskrit Board, Secretary, Jawarharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, Chairman, Indian Board of Wild Life & Project Tiger, President, Authors' Guild of India, Trustee, India International Centre; President, Delhi Music Society, Co-chairman, International Committee of the Temple of Understanding. He holds the honorary rank of Major-General in the Indian Army.

The only former ruler to voluntarily surrender his privy purse, Dr. Karan Singh's two-volume autobiography, "Heir-Apparent" and "Sardar- i-Riyasat" have been justly acclaimed; so was his book entitled "Mundaka Upanished-The Bridge to Immortality" published by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.

He has travelled extensively throughout the country and abroad and have led Indian delegations to many international conferences. In Dr. Karan Singh spearheaded the Virat Hindu Samaj. 1981.

A fine orator and an impressive parliamentarian, he speaks fluently in English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Dogri. His wife, Smt. Yasho Rajya Lakshmi, is the grandaughter or the late Prime Minister of Nepal, Maharaja Mohun Shumsher. An eminent social worker, she is President, Delhi Society for the Welfare of Mentally Retarded Children. They have three children a daughter and two sons.

Foreword I HAVE read this little book with much interest and occasionally with some excitement. It brought to mind the days of my own boyhood and youth when Sri Aurobindo was writing his famous articles in the Bande Mataram. I was then at school in England and later at college in Cambridge, and was thus rather cut off from events in India which were seldom reported in England. Nevertheless, some news trickled through and the great anti-partition movement in Bengal filled us with enthusiasm. Among the famous figures of those days, Sri Aurobindo stood out and drew the admiration of the young. So reading about him in those days and, more particularly, his articles in the Bande Mataram have revived old memories.

Preface THIS work deals with the political thought of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, covering the period from 1893-when he returned to India at the age of 21 after fourteen years in England-to 1910 when he abruptly left Calcutta for Chandernagore and later proceeded to Pondicherry. It thus covers eighteen years, which include a twelve-year preparatory phase during which he lived mainly in Baroda and a brief, though meteoric, career of active politics from 1905 to 1910.